Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 2 | with money to spare for small luxuries ; |
| 3 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 4 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 5 | ( b ) have the patience to search for helpful clues . |
| 6 | Odyssey also comes with host mode which means you can set your computer to wait for incoming calls . |
| 7 | They were thought to have gone to the course to search for lost golf balls . |
| 8 | Their qualifications are … a healthy distaste for children … an ability to act like a witch … and not least , a willingness to work for free . |
| 9 | It is surprising what can be achieved in an old and complex building to provide for disabled people and also how much the internal and external architecture can benefit from the refurbishment that the opportunities of converting a building for disabled access can provide . |
| 10 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 11 | The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) . |
| 12 | ‘ They are characterized by low boredom thresholds and an inability to work for other people , ’ thought Sir John Hoskyns . |
| 13 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 14 | Leitmotif of this year 's conference was certainly the invocation to provide for American Indian representation in the host country 's cultural life . |
| 15 | In many areas the indicator taken by the LEA for extra funding to compensate for urban disadvantage is the number of children registered for free school meals . |
| 16 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 17 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 18 | It was accepted that there had been no deliberate attempt to claim for unauthorised travel , but it was obvious that the regulations had not been publicised effectively , and the section head took steps to ensure that they were more widely circulated to prevent any further occurrences . |
| 19 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 20 | He told magistrates he is using his car to search for new shops to relaunch his business career . |
| 21 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 22 | Likewise , people from industry come to the department to work for short periods . |
| 23 | There is an enormous growth in opportunities to work for central or local government , a commercial or industrial organisation , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , and the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 24 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 25 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 26 | ‘ Although we have no mandate to talk for Scottish fishermen we are quite convinced that they too would want to continue exporting large amounts of herring to your country . ’ |
| 27 | Conservative Central Office will be able to make much of the suggestion that , under a Labour administration , secondary picketing would once again be lawful , that unions which ignored the courts would no longer face the possibility of sequestration and that it would not be possible for employers or other interested parties to apply for interim injunctions postponing precipitate strikes . |
| 28 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 29 | On July 23 the Soviet Union made public its intention to apply for full membership of the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 30 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |